{"id":1262,"date":"2021-11-17T19:40:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T00:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2021-11-17T19:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T00:40:36","slug":"flow-benjamin-cudmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/17\/flow-benjamin-cudmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Flow&#8211;Benjamin Cudmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While reflecting on the reading during Tuesday\u2019s class discussion, I realized that flow deals with all the keywords from this chapter.\u00a0 Flow appears to be a combination of these keywords as it relies on interaction. Flow is utilized like a hook in literature, grabbing the attention of its audience to get them invested in the story. For example, on Instagram, interaction, and lack thereof, is monitored. Likes, saves, follows, and views are all accounted for. The amount of activity on your page is also stored on the app and is visible in settings. The app presents all of the output, input, and everything in between as charts and percentages. The app also sends you notifications of people you might know or sends a notification asking why you are not using Instagram for too long to try and coax you back to using it, demonstrating how inactivity is monitored. Additionally, when you return to the app and post something after a long time, the app tries to reward you by boosting your post, sometimes even sending a message to your followers that you have just posted.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reflecting on the reading during Tuesday\u2019s class discussion, I realized that flow deals with all the keywords from this chapter.\u00a0 Flow appears to be a combination of these keywords as it relies on interaction. Flow is utilized like a hook in literature, grabbing the attention of its audience to get them invested in the story. For example, on Instagram,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/17\/flow-benjamin-cudmore\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}